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Description 

At various times, 226 objects of 

cultural patrimony were removed from 

Laguna Beach in Orange County, CA. In 

1935, A.D. Griffin found one object (a 

digging tool) at an unidentified site in 

Laguna Beach. Subsequently, this item 

was donated to LACMNH. At a date 

prior to 1971, Carl D. Hegner collected 

one object (a donut-shaped stone) from 

an unidentified site in Laguna Beach, 

and in 1971, the Native Daughters of the 

Golden West donated this item to 

LACMNH. At a date prior to 1966, 

University of Southern California 

professor W.J. Wallace excavated 201 

objects from Cameo Cove in Laguna 

Beach. These items were transferred to 

the Laboratory of Anthropology of the 

Hancock Foundation (Hancock 

Foundation), a now-disbanded museum 

that was once part of the University of 

Southern California. On February 1, 

1966, the Hancock Foundation loaned 

these items to LACMNH, and on March 

29, 1983, the loan was converted to a 

donation. At one or more dates prior to 

1966, 23 cultural items were removed 

from unidentified sites in Laguna Beach 

and transferred to the Hancock 

Foundation. On February 1, 1966, the 

Hancock Foundation loaned these items 

to LACMNH, and on March 29, 1983, 

the loan was converted to a donation. 

The 226 objects of cultural patrimony 

are one bead, four cobble tools, five 

cores, one donut-shaped stone, 90 

faunal bones or bone fragments, six fire 

affected stones, 15 flaked stones, two 

groundstone fragments, one 

hammerstone, seven manos or mano 

fragments, one grooved maul, five 

metates or metate fragments, two ochre 

fragments, one mortar, two pestle 

fragments, eight rocks, one scraper, 73 

stones, and one unidentified lithic tool. 

In 1954, University of Southern 

California professor W.J. Wallace 

excavated 22 associated funerary objects 

at the Los Altos site (LAN–270) in Long 

Beach, Los Angeles County, CA. These 

items were transferred to the Hancock 

Foundation, and in 1983, the Hancock 

Foundation donated them to LACMNH. 

The 22 unassociated funerary objects are 

three rattles, two bone tubes, one shell, 

one bead, two stones, four containers or 

container fragments, six tools, two 

projectile points, and one faunal bone. 

Cultural Affiliation 

The cultural items in this notice are 

connected to one or more identifiable 

earlier groups, tribes, peoples, or 

cultures. There is a relationship of 

shared group identity between the 

identifiable earlier groups, tribes, 

peoples, or cultures and one or more 

Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian 

organizations. The following types of 

information were used to reasonably 

trace the relationship: anthropological, 

archeological, historical, oral 

traditional, and Indigenous knowledge. 

The Acjachemen Nation, Gabrieleno 

Tribes, and Tongva Tribes (‘‘People of 

the Earth’’) have strong cultural ties to 

the Laguna Beach and Long Beach 

coastlines. In particular, Puvungna, 

located on the California State 

University, Long Beach campus, is a site 

sacred to the Gabrieleno, Tongva, and 

Acjachemen as being associated with 

their Creation account and Tribal 

history, and is the locus of annual 

pilgrimages by them. The Luisen ̃ o 

people, which include the Pechanga 

Band of Indians, share cultural practices 

and beliefs with the Gabrieleno, Tongva, 

and Acjachemen, and all four groups are 

linguistically related. 

Determinations 

Pursuant to NAGPRA and its 

implementing regulations, and after 

consultation with the appropriate 

Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 

organizations, the LACMNH has 

determined that: 

• The 22 cultural items described 

above are reasonably believed to have 

been placed with or near individual 

human remains at the time of death or 

later as part of the death rite or 

ceremony and are believed, by a 

preponderance of the evidence, to have 

been removed from a specific burial site 

of a Native American individual. 

• The 226 cultural items described 

above have ongoing historical, 

traditional, or cultural importance 

central to the Native American group or 

culture itself, rather than property 

owned by an individual. 

• There is a relationship of shared 

group identity that can be reasonably 

traced between the cultural items and 

the Pechanga Band of Indians 

(Previously listed as Pechanga Band of 

Luiseno Mission Indians of the 

Pechanga Reservation, California). 

Requests for Repatriation 

Additional, written requests for 

repatriation of the cultural items in this 

notice must be sent to the Responsible 

Official identified in ADDRESSES. 

Requests for repatriation may be 

submitted by any lineal descendant, 

Indian Tribe, or Native Hawaiian 

organization not identified in this notice 

who shows, by a preponderance of the 

evidence, that the requestor is a lineal 

descendant or a culturally affiliated 

Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian 

organization. 

Repatriation of the cultural items in 

this notice to a requestor may occur on 

or after January 4, 2024. If competing 

requests for repatriation are received, 

the LACMNH must determine the most 

appropriate requestor prior to 

repatriation. Requests for joint 

repatriation of the cultural items are 

considered a single request and not 

competing requests. The LACMNH is 

responsible for sending a copy of this 

notice to the Indian Tribe identified in 

this notice. 

Authority: Native American Graves 

Protection and Repatriation Act, 25 

U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing 

regulations, 43 CFR 10.8, 10.10, and 

10.14. 

Dated: November 28, 2023. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2023–26619 Filed 12–4–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4312–52–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0037008; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Inventory Completion: 

Peabody Museum of Archaeology and 

Ethnology, Harvard University, 

Cambridge, MA 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native 

American Graves Protection and 

Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the 

Peabody Museum of Archaeology and 

Ethnology (PMAE) has completed an 

inventory of human remains and has 

determined that there is a cultural 

affiliation between the human remains 

and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian 

organizations in this notice. The human 

remains were removed from Santa 

Barbara and Los Angeles Counties, CA. 

DATES: Repatriation of the human 

remains in this notice may occur on or 

after January 4, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: Patricia Capone, PMAE, 

Harvard University, 11 Divinity Avenue, 

Cambridge, MA 02138, telephone (617) 

496–3702, email pcapone@

fas.harvard.edu. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

notice is published as part of the 

National Park Service’s administrative 

responsibilities under NAGPRA. The 

determinations in this notice are the 

sole responsibility of the PMAE. The 

National Park Service is not responsible 

for the determinations in this notice. 

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determinations in this notice, including 

the results of consultation, can be found 

in the inventory or related records held 

by the PMAE. 

Description 

Human remains representing, at 

minimum, 25 individuals were removed 

from the Channel Islands, CA. In 1875, 

Paul Schumacher led a joint expedition 

on behalf of PMAE and the Smithsonian 

Institution to what he referred to as the 

Santa Barbara Islands, which are today 

known as the Channel Islands. During 

this expedition, he removed human 

remains from San Miguel Island (Santa 

Barbara County), Santa Cruz Island 

(Santa Barbara County), San Nicolas 

Island (Ventura County), and Santa 

Catalina Island (Los Angeles County). 

The Smithsonian Institution received 

the majority of those human remains. 

One hundred crania removed from San 

Miguel Island and Santa Cruz Island, 

and 25 mandibles identified as coming 

from the Santa Barbara Islands were 

sent to PMAE. Based on PMAE having 

received human remains that came from 

San Miguel Island and Santa Cruz 

Island, the mandibles most likely came 

from one or both of those islands, too. 

No known associated funerary objects 

are present. 

Human remains, representing at 

minimum, one individual were removed 

from Santa Barbra County, California. In 

1934, PMAE received these human 

remains from the Gila Pueblo 

Foundation, which identified them as 

coming from Hope Ranch in Santa 

Barbara County, CA. No known 

associated funerary objects are present. 

Human remains, representing at 

minimum one individual, were removed 

from Los Angeles County, CA. In 1939, 

Isaac Richardson donated to the PMAE 

the remains of an individual that were 

recovered from Los Angeles County, CA. 

The individual was unearthed by a 

steam shovel in Los Flores Canyon, five 

miles from Santa Monica on Roosevelt 

Highway. No known associated funerary 

objects are present. 

Cultural Affiliation 

The human remains in this notice are 

connected to one or more identifiable 

earlier groups, tribes, peoples, or 

cultures. There is a relationship of 

shared group identity between the 

identifiable earlier groups, tribes, 

peoples, or cultures and one or more 

Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian 

organizations. The following types of 

evidence were used to reasonably trace 

the relationship: oral traditional, 

geographical, and biological. 

Determinations 

Pursuant to NAGPRA and its 

implementing regulations, and after 

consultation with the appropriate 

Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 

organizations, the PMAE has 

determined that: 

• The human remains described in 

this notice represent the physical 

remains of 27 individuals of Native 

American ancestry. 

• There is a relationship of shared 

group identity that can be reasonably 

traced between the human remains 

described in this notice and the Santa 

Ynez Band of Chumash Mission Indians 

of the Santa Ynez Reservation, 

California. 

Requests for Repatriation 

Written requests for repatriation of the 

human remains and associated funerary 

objects in this notice must be sent to the 

Responsible Official identified in 

ADDRESSES. Requests for repatriation 

may be submitted by: 

1. Any one or more of the Indian 

Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations 

identified in this notice. 

2. Any lineal descendant, Indian 

Tribe, or Native Hawaiian organization 

not identified in this notice who shows, 

by a preponderance of the evidence, that 

the requestor is a lineal descendant or 

a culturally affiliated Indian Tribe or 

Native Hawaiian organization. 

Repatriation of the human remains in 

this notice to a requestor may occur on 

or after January 4, 2024. If competing 

requests for repatriation are received, 

the PMAE must determine the most 

appropriate requestor prior to 

repatriation. Requests for joint 

repatriation of the human remains are 

considered a single request and not 

competing requests. The PMAE is 

responsible for sending a copy of this 

notice to the Indian Tribe identified in 

this notice. 

Authority: Native American Graves 

Protection and Repatriation Act, 25 

U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing 

regulations, 43 CFR 10.9, 10.10, and 

10.14. 

Dated: November 28, 2023. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2023–26612 Filed 12–4–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4312–52–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0037013; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Inventory Completion: Los 

Angeles County Natural History 

Museum, Los Angeles, CA 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native 

American Graves Protection and 

Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Los 

Angeles County Natural History 

Museum (LACNHM) has completed an 

inventory of human remains and has 

determined that there is a cultural 

affiliation between the human remains 

and Indian Tribes in this notice. The 

human remains were removed from 

Orange and Los Angeles Counties, CA. 

DATES: Repatriation of the human 

remains in this notice may occur on or 

after January 4, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: Amy E. Gusick, NAGPRA 

Officer, Los Angeles County Museum of 

Natural History, 900 Exposition 

Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90007, 

telephone (213) 763–3370, email 

agusick@nhm.org. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

notice is published as part of the 

National Park Service’s administrative 

responsibilities under NAGPRA. The 

determinations in this notice are the 

sole responsibility of the LACNHM. The 

National Park Service is not responsible 

for the determinations in this notice. 

Additional information on the 

determinations in this notice, including 

the results of consultation, can be found 

in the inventory or related records held 

by the LACNHM. 

Description 

At an unknown date, human remains 

representing, at a minimum, one 

individual were removed from Laguna 

Beach in Orange County, CA, and at an 

unknown date, they were transferred to 

the Laboratory of Anthropology of the 

Hancock Foundation, a now disbanded 

museum once part of the University of 

Southern California (U.S.C.). In 1966, 

these human remains were donated to 

LACNHM. The human remains 

(L.2397.66–1) consist of a mandible 

belonging to an adult of indeterminate 

sex. No associated funerary objects are 

present. 

Human remains representing, at a 

minimum, two individuals were 

removed from Long Beach in Los 

Angeles County, CA. In 1953, U.S.C. 

and California State University, Long 


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